Indian Summers, the drama whose second series is currently showing on Sunday nights on Channel 4 in the UK and will premiere in America on Sunday, September 11 as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, has been cancelled after two series. Set in the summer capital of Simla during the twilight years of the British Raj, Indian Summers starred Julie […]
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Armed with the thought that roughly 10 million people are going to be desperately searching for some quality British period drama to watch come January 2017, PBS has already planned out your Sunday nights television viewing when the mega-hit British period drama ’tis but a memory of January’s past. Jenna Coleman, who has spent the last several […]
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Aside from the fact that the BBC Sport Relief efforts happen to be one of the biggest fundraising events in the UK, it’s a country-wide effort to ‘get active, raise cash and change lives’ according to event organizers. If you are either outside of the UK or the one person within the UK that aren’t familiar with […]
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Perhaps the coolest show on the planet is BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which premiered on BBC radio in 1942. Created by Roy Plomley, the format is about as simple as you can get. A guest ‘castaway’ is invited by host Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to […]
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It’s hard to believe that America is only one week removed since we said farewell to our long-time friends above and below the stairs at Downton Abbey. Tonight will be the first major test for those of us that have spent 8-9 Sunday nights a year for the last six years immersed in the trials and tribulations of […]
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Buck up, little camper. Times are tough right now with Downton Abbey being in our collective drama rearview mirror following Sunday nights finale. But, how can you be down in the dumps at the moment when even Lady Edith is happy! You’d have to be a Lady Mary to not be happy as she and Bertie […]
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UK viewers closed the book on another gut-wrenching series of Call the Midwife last night. Without exception, the Heidi Thomas creation has to be considered the most fearless series on television. Having dealt with domestic abuse, prostitution, infant mortality, homosexuality, racism, poverty and alcohol addiction, the series tackles its most difficult and/or boldest subject to date when Call the Midwife returns […]
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Oddly, in this instance, the seventh and final game of baseball’s World Series is a bit like tonight’s broadcast of Downton Abbey. Stay with me here. Just like the seventh and final game of the World Series, you know that no matter who wins, the next day there is no baseball. After tonight’s broadcast of the ninth […]
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With the Downton Abbey body not even cold yet here in the U.S., the next project from the pen of writer/creator Sir Julian Fellowes is headed to ITV this coming Sunday night. Doctor Thorne is adapted from the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name and tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, the niece […]
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With only one episode left before Carson closes the doors for the final time at Downton Abbey, there are those already deep into the throws of a severe case of separation anxiety. And, with good reason! The sixth and final series will be in Branson’s rear view mirror by the end of the night on […]
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